Monday January 18th, The train from Kiel to Hamburg There is a moment that comes with sitting down on a train. A moment of sheer relaxation. I have found the station on time. I am no longer lugging my bags across town. My job in the coming hours is to sit. Last night I played […]
Photo by Shel Ly Sunday Morning, January 17th, Düsseldorf The sun is shining on last night’s snow. I played the Düsseldorf Acoustic Festival. What a great night it turned out to be. More of that later. First, I want to capture a few impressions from the last few days before they slip away. […]
Once Upon A Time in Cork Twenty years, and at least as many lifetimes ago, I was a student at University College Cork. A picturesque old campus, complete with a river, an old chapel, a bar, some newer uglier buidings, thousands of students, and plenty of trees. As well as displaying a passing interest in […]
Typing at 296km/hr I’m somewhere outside of Strasbourg on a train. Typing at about six words a minute and 296km/hour. Who says men can’t multitask? Paris is behind me. I am glad I went. In all I did three gigs, the final one last night at le Connetable making sense of the entire leg. The […]
Hello from Paris Dimanche, 10 Jan 2016 And so it goes, after months of planning, the tour has begun. I am staying in a tiny but clean and well located airbnb apartment right next to Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise. It is comforting to know that Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Chopin and many more are […]
The New Year has arrived and here in Brooklyn, winter has finally remembered its job. The radio announces, “It is 12 degrees and feels like 2 in Central Park”. My brief foray into the outside world confirms with meteorological certainly that it is bloody freezing. Meanwhile at the headquarters, some good news. New Website This […]
’All We Have Become’. Album completion, release and tour. Chicago blizzard. Denver. My first Pacific Northwest tour. Thank you Paul. Multnomah falls. Portland. Food trucks. McMenamin’s. Salt baths. Eugene. Breweries. The homeless singing under the bridge in the rain. Me, nearby in a cartoon of a motel. Hoola hooper in Hood River. Seattle. Beautiful gig. […]
Tomorrow at Rockwood Music Hall, Steve Goulding will be filling in on drums for us, Len will be playing bass, as Brandon is on brief to 18 year parental leave?! Heartfelt Congratulations to Brandon, Aparna and a big welcome to the blue planet to baby Jaden. Brandon thinks he will be back in a couple […]
I saw two guys busking together today, one sullenly staring at a laptop, the other holding a ukulele. I had four immediate thoughts: Young people these days! They’d not have lasted long on Marlboro St, Cork with the post late bar, fast food fountaineers. Yes, fountaineeers. I am ancient. I have self censored d. I […]
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” —Heraclitus The Path Cafe is closing. I have been hesitant to post about this. While, it is a blow for me, I am conscious of the fact that it is far worse news for many others. […]